Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-30

charitable tastes. Their father was noted for
MS alnSg1vlng and their mother paid the rent
Ior IOO families for several years before she
oled, and gave away, it is said, $40, 900 year
10 the poor. Mrs. Philip Armour is verv
charitable. Mrs. Leland Stamford does
much transformations giving, and 1 am told
Ina1 hetty Oreen gives away considerable,
though she is very careful that it goes to the
right persons. $50
MIS-. 0reenS chief ambition seems to be to
make money, and might add also to save il.
one Is not at all 'extravagant, and there was
a paragraph published not long ago which
described her as carrying sum of money to
thnadelphla herself in order to save the
heaYy charges which would have been en-
Ialied had 1t been sent in some other way.
one sometimes carries fortunes in securities
ABOUT New York in hand sachel, and uses
Une street cars as often as she does her car
rage. Mrs. Hopkins is thoroughly acquainted
with all the ways of business. She has a
broad grasp of financial questions, looks after
her vast interests closely and drives a bar
gam with both tact and economy. Miss Eliz-
abeth Garrett was the confidential secretary
Oh her father for some years before he died,
and she understands the value of Baltimore
and Ohio railroad stock as well as any
man in the country. The richest widow i'm
Colorado was the wife of the late John w.
Lift, who was known some years ago as the
cattle king of Colorado. lift left about
100000 head of cattle, and it is said that his
widow manages his estate as well as any bust
ness man could. She went to Colorado as a
sewing machine agent though she came of a
wealthy family and could have remained at
home doing nothing. She there met Tiff and
married him, and | doubt not the experience
she obtained in connection with the sewing
machine aids her in the management of her
fortune. Speaking Of cattle, there is a cattle
queen in Texas, near Corpus Christi, Mrs.
Rogers, who is said to be worth 81 ,OO0. 900,
and who has many times as much stock as
JOB did Ill his most prosperous DAYS. Her
husband Is preacher, but Mrs. Rogers man.
ages the business. She sells the stock herself.
buys all the supplies and can ride horse as
well as any of the many cowboys whom she
has in her employ. Another cattle queen is
the widow of Gen. Meredith, of Illinois, and
she breeds different kind of cattle from Mrs.
Rogers. Her stock is of a better grade.
Meredith was worth about S500,000 along in
the seventies, but he failed. His wife took
what was left of the herd, managed it, and
made money. She was content with a good
round price for her stock, and she did not be-
lieve in owning $40, 600 bulls and S., 900 calves.
One of the wealthiest women of Ohio is Mrs
George Ward Nichols, who is said to have an
| income of 5000, 900. She is the daughter of
Joseph Longworth, and she is the founder
and proprietor of the lockwood pottery,
which is now noted for its exquisite work
manship both in Europe and America. Mrs
Nichols took up the pottery craze when il
came over the country few years ago. She
developed the art tastes of Cincinnati and
established this factory. She works in it
about five hours daily, and is constantly at
work improving her ware. Her works sell
well in New York, and they have an inter
national reputation. Mrs. Frank Leslie has
made 81 ZOO, 900 in four years, and there is no
brighter business woman in the world than
she.
The richest woman in South America is
good business woman. She is Dona Isadora
Cousino, of Santiago, Chilli She got a big
fortune from her father and married another
Her husband died, and she has now mil
lions of acres Of land, millions of money,
hundreds of thousands of cattle,
coal, copper and silver mines, a rail
road and fleet of iron steamships. She has
an income of several millions year, and her
coal mines bring her in $50, 900 month She
owns town of 1000 people, and pays out
100000 month in wages. She has superin-
tendents for all her establishments, and she
receives weekly reports from them. She is
sharp at driving bargain, and, while she is
very generous, she requires a strict account
of every dollar made and spent upon her
estates. She is still under so and declares she
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fortune hunters and fortune hunting, and is
satisfied to remain as she is.
have said nothing about the rich married
women of the country-women who have
property in their own right-and 1 forgot to
mention among the rich unmarried girls that
Amanda Eubanls, who lives near Sparta,
Ga, is the richest negress in the world. 1t is
said that Miss Eubanks received 100000
from the estate of wealthy Georgia planter,
who died in 1885, leaving an estate of about
100000. He had no children, but a large
number of relatives. He cut off his kindred
with small sums and bequeathed the remain
der as above stated. Speaking of rich mar
ried women, many of our prominent public
men have added to their fortunes by good
| marriages. Whitelaw Reds wife, the
daughter of D. o. Mills, is worth fortune
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, dates his pros
perity from the time he was made tutor to
Peter Cooper'S daughter, whom he afterward
married. Senator Payne's wife brought con-
siderable real estate into the family, and the
old Perry farm, upon a part of which the
| Payne homestead stands, is now in the most
fashionable part of Euclid avenue. Secre-
tary Whitney married prospective fortune
in Henry B. Payne's daughter, and Mrs
| Whitney or her children will probably fall
heir to the dozen and more millions which
her bachelor brother Oliver owns. Congress
man Hit. of Illinois, got nice lot with his
wife, and John Hay was made millionaire
by his marriage with the daughter of Amasa
Stone Congressman Tom Bayne, of Pitts
burg, has made good deal of money himself,
but his wife, who is the daughter of Smith,
the partner of Hostetter, who made the
stomach bitters, has a fortune which runs
high into the hundreds of thousands, and
Senator Hale's wife inherited a fortune from
her father-Zach Chandler.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
TWO MEN WITH IDEAS.